A Rambler’s Reflections on Mothers Parks and Temperance
A rambler muses on life and mothers, recalling home scenes and a mother’s love. He criticizes Warren borough park benches as flashy yet useless and condemns prohibition as a failing policy while endorsing temperance in principle. He reports on a new medicated electrical bath apparatus of Dr. Whitcomb and praises the doctor as a rising regional physician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Warren Borough
Warren
Kansas
Wichita
Salem
N. J
The
Temperance Society
Whitcomb
Constitutional Prohibition Amendment and Election Law Changes
Constitutional amendments propose prohibition on intoxicating liquor and a legal framework for penalties and exceptions while election law changes shorten registration to 30 days before elections and grant voting rights to absentees such as military, navy personnel, and students. Driven well patent royalties face dispute with W D Andrews & Bro claiming 310 per well, while Elmira Advertiser cites Elkhart lawyer John M Van Fleet advocating 60 cents yearly if valid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
United States Army
Navy
W. D. Andrews & Bro
John M. van Fleet
Elkhart
Indiana
Elmira
North Clarendon Notes and Pension Case Items
North Clarendon reports on A O U W relief payouts of 50 dollars to fire victims totaling about 600 dollars, local visits and business developments, a newly formed Clarendon relief association, and social notes. It also covers the Erie pension case verdicts against Seth Todd Perley and J C Blake, with history of Perley’s legal entanglements, and a Chautauqua banquet addressing editors about responsibilities and loyalty to party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doctor Dermot
Cincinnati
Ohio
P. Wilkins
H. Noble
Eric
Charles
H. Cauley
Bradford
Hunter
Tidioute
M. Duffy
J. Wweeden
Brooklyn
N.Y
B. E. Mitchell’s
Goal & Weaver
J. H. Driscoll
Monnin
Main Street
Whitling
Allen & Co
M. Jackson & Bros
Davies
Warren
W. G. Jeffery
Clarendon Relief Association
W.G. Jeffery
B. Whitehill
BE. Wilcox
EH. O. Adams
C. C. Duffield
L. S. Dower
EB. Bradley
J. Noble
Seth Todd Perley
J. C. Blake
Erie
United States Court
Hons
A. B. Richmond
M. Brainerd
J. Ross Thompson
The
Commonwealth
Stone
Mr. Perley
Blake
Erie Herald
Perley
Pension Department
Drought and Cyclones A Farmer’s Water Remedy
A close observer argues that widespread drainage of swamps and tiling has dried the land, causing droughts, heat, and fires. He urges farmers to dig ponds and small lakes to retain rainfall, cool the air, provide water in drought, curb fires, and restore steady rainfall and beauty to inland farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Ireland
Emerald Isle
Union
Middle States
E. Hii
Rations for the Guard at Mt Gretna Encampment
The governor staff commissary issues extensive rations for the national guard encampment at Mt Gretna starting next Saturday. Colonel J Granville Leach oversees deliveries to three brigades, including 39500 pounds beef and 18000 pounds hard biscuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Guard
Mt. Gretna
J. Granville Leach
Philadelphia
Wancock
Cornwall
Lebanon County
Nearby fairs list across multiple towns and dates
A dense roll of county and state fairs from Aug 29 to Oct 7 across Roche ster Jamestown Elmira Canandaigua Bath Mt Morris Perry Warsaw Geneseo Whites ville Jamestown Warren Warren county invitations and notes Union City foregoes fair this year and directs patrons to Wattsburg
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hornellsville
Rochester
Little Valley
Cuba
Dunkirk
Franklinville
Alfred Centre
Bath
Mt. Morris
Perry
Canandaigua
Elmira
Warsaw
Geneseo
Whitesville
Jamestown
N. Y
Philadelphia
Sugar Grove
Conneautville
Warren
Cochranton
Cambridgeboro
Edinboro
Stoneboro
Wattsburg
Mercer
Poultry and Pet Stock Association
Venangoboro
Union City
Too Confiding Farmers in Jamestown Face Bank Defalcation
In Chautauqua county a financial scare centers on Reuben L P Clements, once cashier of the Fredonia national bank and now president of a Leavenworth Kansas bank. Farmers report entrusting large sums to an agent in Jamestown, with at least 65000 dollars cited as lost or misappropriated from local savers who invested in western real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
House of
Perley
Pittsburgh
Point
Congress
U.S. Supreme Court
Jamestown
N. Y
Chautauqua County
Reuben LP
Clements
Citizens’ National Bank of
Leavenworth
Kansas
Fredonia National Bank
Presbyterian Church
Clement
Corbett wins senior singles at Chautauqua Lake Regatta
At Chautauqua Lake last week J F Corbett of Farragut boat club Chicago won the senior singles heat with 10 minutes and later the final in 9 50 Donahure took the junior single in 10 283 The Metropolitans won the double skull in 10 19 Toronto and St Louis clubs also posted wins in four eight oared races
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J. F. Corbett
Farragut Boat Club
Chicago
J. H. O’neil
Boston
G. Piatta
Ithaca
G. A. Strickland
Toronto
Corbett
Donahure
St. Louis
Philadelphia
First National Bank of Renovo Opens With $50,000 Capital
The comptroller of currency has authorized the First National Bank of Renovo Pennsylvania to commence business with a capital of fifty thousand dollars. A local notice lists the bank’s capital and invites deposits and customer service. T. W. McNell is named as manager. Also advertised is the Third Street Livery and Feed Stable, offering good gentle horses for ladies use with attention to transients and reasonable prices, with telephone connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comptroller of Currency
First National Bank of
Renovo
Third Street
L. A
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Warren County
Horace Greely
North Clarendon
Pennsylvania
Western
New York
Chautauqua
W. A. Duncan
Chautauqua Assembly
Ledger
Sam Jones
Jones
Sam Small
Georgia
Fletcher
Vincent
Atheneum
Norra Ciarespos
Mutual Gas Company
R. J. Shugert
EJ. Armstrong
P. L. Bratzer
Acd
L. Merket
John Oneill
Ceeccee
Seers
T.S. Blynn
Ceeceere Cee
A. H. Simpson
M. Rhodale
EB. QO. Adams
MATS
Johnson Irvine
H.W. Gondy
B. E. Waughmar
J. B. Streck
G. W. Miles
John Japes
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